Albert Adam Kvamme Jr., a 69-year-old Yupik man, left Akiak on the morning of April 10, 2020 bound for Togiak on a black, green, and yellow snow machine, pulling a plastic sled. He was last seen around 10:00 a.m., wearing brown or black down outer gear, 5 feet 6 inches tall and about 170 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. The route across the mountains is a familiar one he had made many times and normally takes ten to twenty hours depending on conditions.

When Kvamme did not arrive the next day, local search and rescue from Togiak and Akiak began operations, later joined by volunteers from Akiachak Search and Rescue and Bethel Search and Rescue. Alaska State Troopers and the Rescue Coordination Center conducted aerial surveys from Bethel and Dillingham but found no sign of him or his snow machine. Searchers reported no snowmachine tracks in the mountains between the communities, and deteriorating conditions — melting snow and open water — forced volunteers to stop ground searches on April 14; troopers suspended aerial searches on April 16. No evidence of Kvamme or his machine was located.

Anyone with information about Albert Kvamme’s disappearance is asked to contact the Alaska State Troopers. Has anyone in the region seen him or his snow machine around April 10, 2020?